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[uwmspeccoll]

Marbled Monday

It's time for a touch of marbling to keep this Monday going! This marbling was found in our Shakespeare collection. The book is volume 18 of Samuel Johnson and George Steevens's The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-One Volumes, an annotated edition of Shakespeare's plays. This is a sixth edition revised by Isaac Reed that was published in 1813 and called the first variorum edition. Oddly enough, today, September 18, is the anniversary of Samuel Johnson's birthday in 1709, so happy birthday to Samuel Johnson!

The marbling on the covers is a swirled sort of loose, dotty leaf-esque pattern in muted green, mauve, and black, rather than a tight traditional pattern like peacock/bouquet. It has some zig-zag movement to it in places, and I'd love to see what a larger sheet looked like, but from what I can tell there's not really a uniform pattern to the marbling. Interestingly, the marbling on the covers does not match the marbling on the fore-edges, which is orange and blue, and just one of several things that leads me to believe this is not an original binding.

Another of those things is the wormholes present in the first and last pages of the book that are not continued in the endsheets, which are of a heavy, laid cardstock that seems too clean and too heavy to have been used at the time the text was printed. There is also no damage to the covers themselves, making me think they are newer than the text block. Overall, the color combinations on the book are interesting, with the bright red spine, green and purple and orange and blue marbling, and I must admit aren't my favorite.

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

[pi-slices]

Wormhole.

[fjordline]

Ultra Magnus has to step in to be like 'the right to trial by combat was removed from the constitution 10 million years ago'

[sciderman]

oh tobey we're really in it now

i managed to catch opening night of I'm Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire here in london last week and it's weird and stupid and heartwrenching with a solid amount of britney numbers

[ssseriema]

i drew minutetech for the WORMHOLE ZINE check it outttttttt

[thresholdbb]

I'm a Kai Winn apologist but not because I think she's a good person. She's a compelling tragic character

[389]

Jeweled Path Gilbert Williams

[piastri]

MAXIEL x ROMANCE TROPES

[sweetsouldhavernas]

paint me like one of your french murfs

[beauty-funny-trippy]

[newtsnaturethings]

Suggestive Zelink comic below the cut. Nudity and implied smut.

Based on this amazingly heartfelt fic here by @luftballons99 . This is from chapter 2 of the fic and I couldn’t get it out of my head, so I did the sensible (lol) thing and made a comic.

[ajiax]

sweet , sweet ajax who’s overstimulated beyond belief but he just can’t get enough :( every time he cums , his cock gets hard again because his princess is so pretty ! n’ when his legs finally give out he rolls over next to u n’ loosely holds u in his arms , pulling u closer to him as he continues rocking into u softly , biting back little moans n’ whines . . he’s so sensitive but still , he just can’t help himself >_<

[theminecraftbee]

me, glancing down at my phone to see a youtube notification from doc that reads “Creating a Wormhole”: yeah okay that checks out. glad to see that even though I’m very behind on hermitcraft doc is still behaving as expected. good on him,

[table-top-horror]

[ssseriema]

judgement day

[choochooboss]

"Reunion between worlds"